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Ashton Eaton Quotes

You're just constantly battling this thing that is telling you, 'I don't think I can do it.' I think we all have it. When you're fresh and alert, you can easily put those doubts down. But when you're tired, they easily come up to the surface.

Ashton Eaton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: January 21, 1988

Topics

Tired Think You Down I Can Fresh

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

Jodi Picoult

Age Time Writing Now Three Way

If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.

Andre Benjamin

Football You Look Pictures Now Old

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Maya Angelou

Work Success Good Morning Freedom

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.

Anish Kapoor

Back Nothing First Two Years Within

Indian writers in English are rank individualists. Even among the progressives, there is a strain of anti-leftism, or at least a suspicion of any organized politics.

Amitava Kumar

Politics Organized Suspicion English

If the Lord comes and burns - as you say he will - I am not going away; I am going to stay here and stand the fire, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! And Jesus will walk with me through the fire and keep me from harm.

Sojourner Truth

Walk Fire I Am Me Stand You

I just work hard at everything I do. If there's something I need to learn, I stick to it, I learn it and put everything I have toward it.

Stipe Miocic

Work Work Hard Learn Need Hard Just

I've started movies without screenplays both on 'Clash' and on 'Hulk,' and that is tremendously stressful because you have a tendency to overcompensate with effects. You haven't tested it in your head. You didn't run it over and over again and covered all of the plot holes and figure it out. It's a marathon that you sprint.

Louis Leterrier

You Movies Run Marathon Over Head

My first memory of cinema is my mother taking me to see 'Silkwood,' which is about a whistleblower at a nuclear power plant.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Mother Power Memory Me Plant Cinema

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

Chiang Kai-shek

Alone Discipline Law Democracy True

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

Conor McGregor

I Am Free Feel Media Train Jungle

'Farscape' is a fabulous vehicle for looking at ethical, moral, political, and social issues.

Bonnie Hammer

Looking Political Moral Fabulous